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THE BOOK OF THE PROPHET<br/>
<span class=large>EZEKIEL</span>
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CHAPTER 42
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Ezekiel sees in the temple the chambers for the priests.
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Then</span> he brought me forth into the <sup>a</sup><a href="ezek/42/1a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ezek. 40: 20.">utter</a> court, the way toward the north: and he brought me into the chamber that <i>was</i> <sup>b</sup><a href="ezek/42/1b" mark="b" type="D" title="OR opposite.">over</a> against the separate place, and which <i>was</i> before the building toward the north.
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Before the length of an hundred cubits <i>was</i> the north door, and the breadth <i>was</i> fifty cubits.
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<sup>a</sup><a href="ezek/42/3a" mark="a" type="D" title="OR Adjoining.">Over</a> against the twenty <i>cubits</i> which <i>were</i> for the inner court, and over against the pavement which <i>was</i> for the utter court, <i>was</i> <sup>b</sup><a href="ezek/42/3b" mark="b" type="A" title="Ezek. 41: 16 (15-16).">gallery</a> against gallery in three <i>stories.</i>
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And before the <sup>a</sup><a href="ezek/42/4a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ezek. 40: 17; Ezek. 41: 10; Ezek. 46: 19.">chambers</a> <i>was</i> a walk of ten cubits breadth inward, a way of one cubit; and their doors toward the north.
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Now the upper chambers <i>were</i> shorter: for the galleries were higher than these, than the lower, and than the middlemost of the building.
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For they <i>were</i> in three <i>stories,</i> but had not pillars as the pillars of the courts: therefore <i>the building</i> was straitened more than the lowest and the middlemost from the ground.
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And the wall that <i>was</i> without over against the chambers, toward the <sup>a</sup><a href="ezek/42/7a" mark="a" type="D" title="OR outer.">utter</a> court on the forepart of the chambers, the length thereof <i>was</i> fifty cubits.
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For the length of the chambers that <i>were</i> in the utter court <i>was</i> fifty cubits: and, lo, before the temple <i>were</i> an <sup>a</sup><a href="ezek/42/8a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ezek. 40: 47; Ezek. 41: 13.">hundred</a> cubits.
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And from under these chambers <i>was</i> the entry on the east side, as one goeth into them from the utter court.
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The chambers <i>were</i> in the thickness of the wall of the court toward the east, over against the separate place, and over against the building.
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And the way before them <i>was</i> like the appearance of the chambers which <i>were</i> toward the north, as long as they, <i>and</i> as broad as they: and all their goings out <i>were</i> both according to their fashions, and according to their doors.
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And according to the doors of the chambers that <i>were</i> toward the south <i>was</i> a door in the head of the way, <i>even</i> the way directly before the wall toward the east, as one entereth into them.
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&#182; Then said he unto me, The north chambers <i>and</i> the south chambers, which <i>are</i> before the separate place, they <i>be</i> holy chambers, where the <sup>a</sup><a href="ezek/42/13a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ezek. 40: 46.">priests</a> that approach unto the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> shall <sup>b</sup><a href="ezek/42/13b" mark="b" type="A" title="Lev. 6: 26 (16, 26); Lev. 10: 13.">eat</a> the most holy things: there shall they lay the most holy things, and the <sup>c</sup><a href="ezek/42/13c" mark="c" type="A" title="Lev. 2: 1 (1, 3, 10).">meat</a> offering, and the <sup>d</sup><a href="ezek/42/13d" mark="d" type="A" title="Lev. 4: 3 (2-3); Ezek. 40: 39.">sin</a> offering, and the trespass offering; for the place <i>is</i> holy.
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When the priests enter therein, then shall they not go out of the holy  <i>place</i> into the utter court, but there they shall lay their <sup>a</sup><a href="ezek/42/14a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ezek. 44: 19.">garments</a> wherein they minister; for they <i>are</i> holy; and shall put on other garments, and shall approach to <i>those things</i> which <i>are</i> for the people.
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Now when he had made an end of measuring the inner house, he brought me forth toward the <sup>a</sup><a href="ezek/42/15a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ezek. 40: 6; Ezek. 43: 1 (1-2); Ezek. 44: 1.">gate</a> whose prospect <i>is</i> toward the east, and measured it round about.
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He measured the east side with the <sup>a</sup><a href="ezek/42/16a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ezek. 40: 3.">measuring</a> reed, five hundred reeds, with the measuring reed round about.
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He measured the north side, five hundred reeds, with the measuring reed round about.
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He measured the south side, five hundred reeds, with the measuring reed.
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&#182; He turned about to the west side, <i>and</i> measured five hundred reeds with the measuring reed.
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He <sup>a</sup><a href="ezek/42/20a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ezek. 40: 5.">measured</a> it by the four sides: it had a wall round about, <sup>b</sup><a href="ezek/42/20b" mark="b" type="A" title="Ezek. 45: 2.">five</a> hundred <i>reeds</i> long, and five hundred broad, to make a separation between the sanctuary and the <sup>c</sup><a href="ezek/42/20c" mark="c" type="E" title="OR common; Ezek. 45: 6; Ezek. 48: 15.">profane</a> place.
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